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室

室

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

室 (radical 40 宀+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 十一戈土 (JMIG), four-corner 30104, composition ⿱宀至)

See also

References

  • KangXi: page 285, character 2
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7136
  • Dae Jaweon: page 563, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 925, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+5BA4

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 室

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 室
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (至) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
致 *tiɡs
輊 *tiɡs
駤 *tiɡs
跮 *tʰiɡs, *tʰiɡ
荎 *di, *diːɡ
緻 *diɡs
至 *tjiɡs
鵄 *tʰji
胵 *tʰji
痓 *tʰjiɡs
咥 *hriɡs, *tiːɡ, *diːɡ, *tʰiɡ
窒 *tiːɡ, *tiɡ
蛭 *tiːɡ, *tiɡ, *tjiɡ
垤 *diːɡ
耋 *diːɡ
姪 *diːɡ, *diɡ
絰 *diːɡ
恎 *diːɡ
挃 *tiɡ
庢 *tiɡ
銍 *tiɡ, *tjiɡ
秷 *tiɡ
螲 *tiɡ
侄 *diɡ, *tjiɡ
桎 *tjiɡ
郅 *tjiɡ
晊 *tjiɡ
室 *hliɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *hliɡ) : semantic 宀 ‎(“roof”) + phonetic 至 ‎(OC *tjiɡs).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 室
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 書 (26)
Final (韻) 質 (48)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 式質切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɕiɪt̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɕit̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɕjet̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɕit̚/
Li
Rong		 /ɕiĕt̚/
Wang
Li		 /ɕĭĕt̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ɕi̯ĕt̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 shi
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 室
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 shì
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ syit ›
Old
Chinese		 /*s.ti[t]/
English chamber; house

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 室
Reading # 1/1
No. 17374
Phonetic
component		 至
Rime
group		 質
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 失
Old
Chinese		 /*hliɡ/

Definitions

室

  1. room; chamber
  2. court; dynasty
  3. home; house
  4. (in addresses) apartment number; flat number
  5. office
  6. wife
  7. tomb; grave
  8. (astronomy) Encampment, a Chinese constellation near Pegasus

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

室

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. room

Readings

Compounds

Kanji in this term
室
しつ
Grade: 2
on'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

室 ‎(hiragana しつ, romaji shitsu)

  1. room

References

  1. ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9

Korean

Hanja

室 • ‎(sil)
Eumhun:

  • Sound (hangeul): 실 (revised: sil, McCune-Reischauer: shil, Yale: sil)
  • Name (hangeul): 집 (revised: jip, McCune-Reischauer: chip, Yale: cip)
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Compounds

Vietnamese

Han character

室 (thất)

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